2010 February, 9th

Lorri Berry

Today, Websense, Inc., a global leader in content security, introduced the new Websense® TRITON™ unified security architecture. This new architecture combines Websense Web, data, and email security technologies into a single platform to deliver unified content analysis and management. Its function is to integrate the real-time Web content analysis and malware protection of the industry-leading Websense Web Security Gateway with industry-leading Websense Data Security Suite and Websense Email Security. TRITON will protect organizations and their essential information from threats and targeted attacks, while easing administration and lowering total cost of ownership. In other words, Websense, Inc., once again, brings businesses better security.

Brian Burke, the Program Director of Security Products at IDC Research, explains that the need for a new unified security paradigm to provide protection from both inbound threats and outbound risk with single policy management for on-premise and security-as-a-service (SaaS) deployments across dispersed enterprises has never been greater.

“The Web has become the preferred platform from which cybercriminals launch their various types of complex malware attacks on individuals and businesses, because it is perceived to be an easy way to access valuable information assets,” said Burke. “To be effective against today’s modern threats, Web security technologies must have robust data loss prevention and be capable of maintaining compliance and control by analyzing inbound and outbound Web traffic in real-time, and must also provide a unified platform for on-premise and SaaS solutions so security policies can be applied and enforced equally across even dispersed enterprises.”

The recent Aurora attack, where emails containing links to malicious code were sent to Google, Adobe, and approximately 30 other companies, is one example of why companies are in need of unified Web, data, and email security. TRITON creates a barrier between outside threats and organizations’ sensitive data.  It is the first security architecture to successfully integrate enterprise-class data loss prevention (DLP) technology into Web security gateway and email security solutions, delivering TruContent™ intelligence. This intelligence includes the real-time analysis and classification of inbound and outbound content for protection from threats and risks such as zero-day Web exploits and malware, data loss, acceptable use violations, and non-compliance for regulated data.

TRITON is also the industry’s only security platform to deliver TruHybrid™, a unifying policy management and reporting infrastructure across on-premise, security-as-a-service (SaaS) and hybrid deployment models. TRITON allows organizations to set security policies across all of its branch offices and remote workers, while making it easier to manage their policies from a single console for both on-site and SaaS Web, data and email security solutions.

Through the use of TruContent and TruHybrid technologies, TRITON is able to consolidate any organization’s Web, data, and email security solutions into a single architecture. Those who select TRITON will benefit from lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprise security. How will TRITON make this possible? IT administration will not be tied-up in struggles against malicious threats, and the need for on-site hardware at different branch locations will be reduced, all without compromising security. Instead, companies can use on-site software or an appliance at their headquarters and larger offices and cover their remote locations with SaaS security, while managing all of their security needs from one major console.

“We have been pursuing this unified content security strategy with relentless focus since early 2007 by developing, acquiring and integrating our industry-leading Web, email and data security technologies and expanding our ThreatSeeker™ content analysis and threat detection capabilities,” said Websense President John McCormack. “All this was done not so we could simply offer SaaS versions of our security products as some other vendors do, but so we could pave the way to the future of enterprise security by combining the power of on-premise, real-time content security with the ease of management and lower total cost of ownership provided by SaaS solutions. Above all, TRITON provides Websense customers the best protection against modern threats at a lower total cost of ownership.”

For those interested, Websense TRITON solution is currently available to qualified organizations as part of an early adopter program. The company has planned to offer full general availability for upgrade and purchase in April.

For more information and to register for a white paper and webinar on the benefits of hybrid security, visit http://www.websense.com/TRITON.

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About the Author

Lorri Berry is a freelance writer. She has BSJ in Advertising from Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at WVU in the US. Lorri's experience includes advertising account management, campaign concept development, copywriting and news editorial. She is the mother of three boys and a work at home mom. You can contact Lorri at lberry [at] pamil-visions [dot] net or follow her on Twitter.

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